about Mia Leonin

Mia Leonin is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Fable of the Pack-Saddle Child (BkMk Press), Chance Born, Unraveling the Bed, and Braid (Anhinga Press) and a memoir, Havana and Other Missing Fathers (University of Arizona Press). Her poetry and creative non-fiction have been published in New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, Witness, North American Review, Guernica, and others. She has written extensively about theater and culture for the Miami Herald, New Times, ArtBurst, and other publications. Leonin teaches creative writing at the University of Miami.

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